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Video games don’t make people violent. I believe that. But, there have been a couple of moments when I’ve been so frustrated that I may have headbutted my own controller. Just putting it out there. I was wondering — what’s the stupidest thing a video game has ever made you do?

As a kid I did elbow a hole through my door. Immediate regret. When my Dad saw it he hit the roof. I think that was the point where I realised I needed to tone things down a bit.

How about you guys? What’s the dumbest thing a video game ever made you do?

As a bratty teen I put a crack in a SNES controller while playing Killer Instinct.

Apart from that I do get frustrated from time to time but I don't let it get the best of me
...if I do then it shows the game that it is winning, and I'll be damned if I'm going to give that bastard the satisfaction.

Maybe not stupidest ever, but last night I ruined up a perfect run of Trials Evolution's 7 minute long "Gigatrack" after the final checkpoint. My swearing was loud enough and upset enough that I woke up my wife who was asleep in another room, and she was panicked that I had actually hurt myself in some way.

While playing speed Freaks (PS1 Kart Racer) with friends at my house, I lost a tournament race because of them tugging at my controller. For some reason I flipped out and told them to get out. At first they thought I was kidding but I proceeded to raise my voice and force them out, physically pushing them out the door.

My younger sister who was watching us just sat there and shook her head. After a few hours I realised this was an unnecessary tantrum on my part and I had to go apologising to my friends embarrassed at my actions.

All I can think of is trying to get my computer to work properly back when I could be arsed doing that sort of thing (ie before I gave up and bought an xbox), and in frustration tried to kick the wall. Instead I gave my shin a solid whack into the privacy bar on the desk. Very painful.

In a fit of rage I once bit my PS2 controller. After suppressing the urge to throw it, it was the only thing I could think of. The perfect indentation of my teeth on the top and bottom side of the controller started a conversation or two in it's time.

Now I'm older I recognise when the 'omgimgoingtochuckthisthroughmyteeveeinasecond' urge is coming on, and decide to stop playing, or I'll just drop the controller - instead of throwing it, just drop it.

Shattered a controller due to Ultimate M.Bison in Street Fighter Zero's World Tour mode. Followed that up by smashing ans breaking the lid in my Playstation and finally snapping the disc (it was during my pirating days so it was easily replaced)

Had a friend completey tear aprt his N64 controller during the early hours of the morning after an all night multiplayer session. First, he threw it to the ground, then proceeded to rip it completely open. I think that was the last time we pulled an all night gaming session.

I threw Enter the Matrix for xbox, out the door and across the road like a frisbie and it landed in one of those giant pick-up bins and my brother had to go fetch it - was rented! Also in the PSone days, rented games from videoshops that were scratched to the shithouse would be tortured in fits of rage. I would rub the CD's on the carpet. Wash them under running water. And through them onto the road outside.

Another good one, was when still living at home, me and my brother would fight over the TV remote. After mum joined in the arguement and started too lecture me on everything that has ever happened. I flipped and threw the control at the front screen door and it literally exploded! One of those, "Ive gone too far moments." Stuff like this is always funny in retrospect though, haha

I'd have some really good fist fights with my beds mattress and pillow while playing street fight zero. But once I got so annoyed at Fifa that I slammed my fist into my keyboard which had individual keys flying all over my room ... never been so annoyed at a game like that, so frustrating.

After bragging about my outrageous Tekken skills (On Tekken 4) for a good hour at the pub one of my friends challenged me. Walked back to mine with a few mates and started the old PS2 up, he went Christy which immediately had me seething with rage. He then proceeded to perfect me in a button mashing combo from hell. After losing my sht completely and hammering the controller on the floor i attempted to carefully put all the buttons back in and the wiring all nice - it never worked again.